Metro Bank has appointed Richard Jenkins as Commercial Lending Director for Wales and the South-West.
Metro Bank has announced a new partnership with Covecta, an AI platform for financial services that will be deployed across its corporate and commercial credit businesses.
Paul Gaynor and Louise Molloy join as Commercial Lending Directors within the North-West region.
Championed by Metro Bank’s Local Director Steve Degg’s the inaugural Netwalking event has just taken place bringing together nearly 20 local businesses for a turn around the lovely streets of Hull for some mutual commercial chat.
Metro Bank is supporting this year’s No More Week (March 2nd – 8th), part of the UK Says No More campaign organised by domestic abuse charity Hestia. The theme of the week is ‘No More Silence’.
Daniel Frumkin, Chief Executive Officer at Metro Bank, said: "It has been a transformational year for Metro Bank as we made substantial progress against our strategy, ending the period ahead of guidance, profitable, and with strong momentum going forward.” “We have successfully continued our pivot towards higher margin business in the form of corporate, commercial and SME lending and specialist mortgages, while also taking significant steps to reduce our costs and optimising our funding model. We have simplified and strengthened our balance sheet, and as a result, end the year with a robust capital position.” “Our network of stores helps us grow our target markets, with our specialist relationship banking colleagues driving positive outcomes for customers and communities across the UK. We are delivering on our strategy. Looking forward, we are confident that Metro Bank has a strong and compelling plan, differentiated model and clear path forward to further growth.”
Metro Bank will be hosting a celebration for International Women’s Day – the Women Mean Biz event - at its Stall Street store on Thursday March 6th from 6pm – 8.30pm. The Women Mean Biz event will be hosted by Nicky Bevan – a life coach for working mums and feature an outstanding group of inspirational women speakers.
Metro Bank will be hosting a celebration for International Women’s Day at its High Street store on Friday March 7th from 10am – 12pm.
Metro Bank’s Crawley store will host the first Get Connected event of 2025 on Friday February 7th from 9am.
The six-year partnership between Metro Bank and the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is rooted in the creation of the Metro Bank Girls in Cricket Fund, which aims to drive transformational growth for girls’ recreational cricket across England and Wales.
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